Cutting through the app: - How can mobile health apps meet their true potential?

Whilst there are innovative ideas and services that are reaching the market, for the true potential of The remit of this report is a systems-level analysis of health behavioural apps to be reached, challenges the state of play of the health apps market. [...] Using the most up to date data available, this chapter provides information on smartphone prevalence, the size of the health app market, the population’s willingness to use health apps and analysis of what the characteristics are of the people already using health apps. [...] In terms of a healthy life- Whilst the focus of this paper is on the state of the health style, there was no association between using a health apps market and the respective barriers, it is important app and eating the recommended amount of fruit and to address user and consumer perspectives in terms of vegetables, but they are more likely to exercise more what people want from apps, how they int. [...] The study found than the other groups (4.6 kg in the app group, compared that when the app is used by people who drink heavily, the to 2.9kg in the paper-based group and 1.3kg in the percentage of days abstinent sharply increases, whilst there website group). [...] to be too much of a focus of this paper, it is valuable to highlight some of the most promising areas of innovation Health hubs: Using the internet of things, there are now in health apps and mobile health technology: products that connect home technology and remote monitoring to provide an integrated ‘health hub’ in the Sensors: Dexcom are a company that uses a small home, to monitor a person’s h.